A progressive says he is afraid Obama’s knees are getting weak and the best TOTUS has got is ‘they called FDR a socialist too?” ? Then he says it is a GOP conspiracy when he has both houses!? Oh boy. Imagine how the lady feels who sold her TV to avoid Obama only to hear him on her radio? lol, poor woman!

KOTA News coverage of the Citizens for Liberty Health Care Recess Rally press conference at the Pennington County Courthouse. The press conference was to announce the rally coming on Aug. 22. Senator John Thune, Senator Tim Johnson and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin have been invited, in addition to every West River South Dakota legislator, regardless of party.

,,,This is entering into the level of implausibility embraced by those who defended the Rathergate Memos. Yet I’ve seen it stated as a positive fact in several comment sections.

But here’s how we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the footage was not of the protester’s white doppelganger: you can see the CNN reporter in the MSNBC footage. Yet that reporter makes it clear during the interview that he did not see the mysterious other guy who was identically dressed and armed, but possibly white.

There is no reasonable doubt that MSNBC cropped the guy’s race out of the video with some extremely weird editing. I don’t know whether the anchor knew about it or not–I presume she didn’t–or why they chose to edit it that way. But the evidence is pretty overwhelming that they did, and that at the very least, the anchor made some stupid and unwarranted assumptions….

MiM has been invited to attend a tele-townhall with Sen. Klobuchar on health care. But then she cannot see my awesome sign! She says she will try to take questions. If you are a MN resident please take note:

As someone who has previously contacted our office to share your thoughts on issues important to you, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a live statewide healthcare tele-town hall meeting this Sunday, August 23 rd , at 7:00 PM.

Along with people like you from across the state, I will be joined by Dr. Denis Cortese, CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and Mary Wakefield, the highest ranking nurse in the federal government. The three of us will discuss the need for health care reform, including ways to make the American health care system more affordable and more stable, and I will answer as many questions as I can from citizens from around the state.

If you would like to participate in this important discussion, the only way to guarantee your involvement is to visit our website at http://klobuchar.senate.gov or click HERE and enter your contact information. Once you’re registered, you’ll get an automated reminder phone call on Friday evening and you’ll be called again on Sunday to be joined to the call. The phone number you provide will be kept private.

If you have any questions, you can call the office toll free at 1-888-224-9043.

Two weeks into the job, SurveyUSA asked Minnesotans if they approved/disapproved of his work so far as senator. The poll found 43 percent of adults approved of his job performance and 45 percent disapproved. For a net disapproval of 2. Yikes. Sen. Amy Klobuchar had a 54-percent approval rating, with 42 percent disapproving.

As a result of this apparent shift in public sentiment, Klobuchar has now endured the 4th largest drop in net approval rating since Barack Obama took office in January of this year among the 25 Senators tracked by SurveyUSA.

According to SurveyUSA’s latest round of monthly polling, Klobuchar’s approval rating fell from 62 percent in June to 54 percent in mid-July – her second lowest mark of her D.C. career, behind only the 52 percent she notched in a May 2007 SurveyUSA Poll.

Even more striking, 42 percent of Gopher State residents disapproved of the job Klobuchar is doing as Senator – her highest red mark ever and the first time that number has reached the 40 percent mark in her 2.5 years on the Hill. Klobuchar’s disapproval rating increased 35.5 percent in just one month.

Maybe she should take the time to see MN constituents face to face. Just sayin’

Finally. Sadly it took a direct threat from Waxman with his demands for proprietary information from the insurers to get many companies to realize their very existence is on the table now. AmericanPharma is deluded if they think they will be left alone and the deal they cut will be honored….

Disclaimer I have United Health through a group employer plan and I love it and my mom has it on an individual plan and she loves it too.

Update: Politico is pushing United to disclaim everything, it has put out a statement. Basically United is not telling employees to go to Tea Parties, it is however outlining their position in case some do attend:

The United Health Group, a major insurer seen as playing the politics of reform better than most, is denying a report that it directed its employees to attend tea parties opposing the Democratic plans.

The insurance giant, with about 75,000 employees, confirmed another element of the report, however: That its employees’ talking points include opposition to a public option for health insurance.

TPM reported yesterday being told by a source that the company’s operators were directing employees to protests against administration plans.

A spokesman for United Health, John Parker, flatly denied the anonymous source’s characterization.

“That’s absolutely categorically wrong,” he said. “We have never encouraged our employees to attend Tea Parties. The information we provide our employees is publicly available information about town halls sponsored by members of Congress…. The links that were provided [in the report] are not links that we provide.”

Parker said the company’s stance is “extremely neutral,” and provided the talking points circulated to employees, which advocate the insurance industry’s basic stance: An openness to “bipartisan” reform, but staunch opposition to a public plan...

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